Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Huskies. We're the Crimson. This one isn't even close. What kind of nickname is a color? Imagine: the Boston Green (Celtics), the Boston Black (Bruins), or the New England Red, White and Blue. Absurd. Some say it's simple and classy. I say it's plain and boring. Nickname, minus two Harvard...
Clinton ended his last day as "just plain Bill" at the Capital Center in suburban Maryland, where Urethra Franklin, Chevy Chase and Michael Bolton performed in his honor...
...Harvard Yard, dragging trunks full of their best clothes from home. Styles may have changed since the College abolished mandatory coat and tie in classes and the dining halls, but Harvard men still ride the cutting edge of fashion. From trendy to chi-chi to risque to just plain weird, STYLES profiles the way Harvard men sport their clothes today...
...ruins thin out at the eastern end of Mogadishu, which the Marines refer to as "Mog," giving way to a surprisingly green plain where donkeys, cattle and camels graze. The Marines are entering territory they have not yet explored. Sitting on top of their vehicles, they point M-16s toward the thorn trees and foot-high shoots of corn on either side of the road. Hot exhaust fumes coat their faces in soot. Each time the convoy approaches a village, Somalis come out to cheer. "It's unbelievable," says Fisher. "You're expecting them to shoot at you, and they...
MARITAL SEPARATIONS, A FIRE AT WINDsor Castle and now CHARLES AND DIANA: UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER -- it has been a rough year for the royal family. ABC's new docudrama (Dec. 13) starts with the 1981 royal wedding and goes downhill from there. Its sympathies are plain: Diana is the down-to-earth outsider forced to endure a stuffy new life-style (when she pops into the palace kitchen for orange juice, the staff is horrified). Charles is merely a wuss; the real heavies are his priggish parents, forever sniffing about royal propriety. Despite the oversimplification, this TV movie is surprisingly...